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- Iraq: Good News Is No News - February 12, 2009
- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went from leader of a small Islamic party to leader of the "State of the Law Party," campaigning on security and secular nationalism....
- So Much For Hope Over Fear - February 5, 2009
- The Daschle affair was more serious because his offense involved more than taxes. As Michael Kinsley once observed, in Washington the real scandal isn't what's...
- Obama's Unnecessary Apology - January 29, 2009
- Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them....
- Obama's Inaugural Surprise - January 22, 2009
- Which seems to me the only way to understand the mediocrity of his inaugural address. The language lacked lyricism. The content had neither arc nor theme: no...
- Exit Bush, Shoes Flying - January 15, 2009
- It is the repeated pledge to conduct a withdrawal from Iraq that does not destabilize its new democracy and that, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden said just this...
- Two Endgames for Israel - January 8, 2009
- That would be a terrible mistake. It would fail on its own terms. It would have the same elements as the phony peace in Lebanon: an international force that...
- A Real Cease-Fire Needed in Gaza - January 1, 2009
- Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger....
- Chance for a Net-Zero Gas Tax - Weekly Standard - December 28, 2008
- Camelot is Not a State - December 18, 2008
- I hate to be a good government scold, but wasn't the American experiment a rather firm renunciation of government by pedigree? Yes, the Founders were not...
- Obama's Plan to Transform America - December 11, 2008
- Similarly his senior economic team, the brilliant trio of Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker: centrist, experienced and mainstream. But their principal...
- Historic Progress in Iraq - December 4, 2008
- For the United States, it represents the single most important geopolitical advance in the region since Henry Kissinger turned Egypt from a Soviet client into an...
- The Washington Stock Market - November 27, 2008
- As economist Irwin Stelzer argues, we have gone from a market economy to a political economy. Consider seven days in November. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, Paulson broadly...
- A Lemon of a Bailout - November 13, 2008
- Underlying the policy differences is a philosophical divide. The Bush administration sees the $700 billion rescue as an emergency measure to save the financial sector...
- The Campaign Autopsy - November 6, 2008
- This was not just a meltdown but a panic. For an agonizing few days, there was a collapse of faith in the entire financial system -- a run on banks, panicky...
- McCain for President, Part II - October 30, 2008
- Both McCain and Barack Obama have assembled fine economic teams that may differ on the details of their plans but have reasonable approaches to managing the crisis....
- McCain for President - October 23, 2008
- First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The...
- Who's Playing the Race Card? - October 16, 2008
- The search for McCain's racial offenses is untiring and often unhinged. Remember McCain's Berlin/celebrity ad that showed a shot of Paris Hilton? An appalling...
- A Question of Barack Obama's Character - October 9, 2008
- McCain has only himself to blame for the bad timing. He should months ago have begun challenging Obama's associations, before the economic meltdown allowed the...
- Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry - October 2, 2008
- When the financial crisis hit, McCain went razzle-dazzle again, suspending his campaign and declaring he'd stay away from the first presidential debate until the...
- Catharsis, Then Common Sense - September 25, 2008
- Some disdain that assessment as hypothetical. Paulson and Bernanke, who actually peered into the abyss on Black Thursday (Sept. 18), think otherwise. They're not...
- History Will Judge - September 18, 2008
- When I asked President Bush during an interview Monday to reflect on this oddity, he cast himself back to early 2001, recalling what he expected his presidency...
- Charlie Gibson's Gaffe - September 12, 2008
- There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this...
- Obama's Altitude Sickness - September 11, 2008
- But Palin is not just a problem for Obama. She is also a symptom of what ails him. Before Palin, Obama was the ultimate celebrity candidate. For no presidential...
- Can Palin's Star Power Overcome Resume? - September 4, 2008
- It's clear that McCain picked her because he had decided that he needed a game-changer. But why? He'd closed the gap in the polls with Obama. True, that had more to...
- The Perfect Stranger - August 28, 2008
- When John Kerry was introduced at his convention four years ago, an honor guard of a dozen mates from his Vietnam days surrounded him on the podium attesting to his...
- Obama's Stage: Has He Lost His Mind? - Wash Post - August 26, 2008
- NATO Meows - August 21, 2008
- Having launched a fearsome tautology Moscow's way, what further action does the Greatest Alliance Of All Time take? Cancels the next NATO-Russia Council meeting. ...
- How to Stop Putin - August 13, 2008
- The real objective is the Finlandization of Georgia through the removal of President Mikheil Saakashvili and his replacement by a Russian puppet. Which explains...
- It's Simple: Drill and Conserve - August 7, 2008
- Democrats have the advantage on just about every domestic issue from health care to education. However, Americans' greatest concern is the economy, and their greatest...
- Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill - July 31, 2008
- Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60 percent of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25 percent. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a...
- Maliki Votes for Obama - July 24, 2008
- What is Maliki thinking? Clearly, he believes that the Iraq War is won. Al-Qaeda is defeated, the Sunni insurgency is in abeyance, the Shiite extremists are scattered...
- The Audacity of Vanity - July 17, 2008
- Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight...
- How Hostages, And Nations, Get Liberated - July 10, 2008
- This in foreign policy establishment circles is called "hard power." In the Bush years, hard power is terribly out of fashion, seen as a mere obsession of cowboys and...
- A Man of Seasonal Principles - July 3, 2008
- Last week, when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, Obama immediately declared that he agreed with the decision. This...
- The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama - Washington Post - June 26, 2008
- McCain's Oil Epiphany - Washington Post - June 19, 2008
- McCain Can Win Election on Iraq - Washington Post - June 12, 2008
- At $4, Everybody Gets Rational - Washington Post - June 5, 2008
- The Church of the Environment - Washington Post - May 29, 2008
- Obama's Growing Gaffe - Washington Post - May 22, 2008